Over the next weeks leading up the expo and conference, we will preview a handful of the 150-plus manufacturers and suppliers who have signed on for the first Ceramics Expo. Today, we turn the pre-show spotlight to Morgan Advanced Materials.

With a highly technical wave of a wand, MIT researchers have, for the first time, fabricated multifunctional, multimaterial fibers that have a completely different composition than their starting materials.

Researchers at Switzerland’s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have developed a telescopic contact lens and wink-controlled smart glasses that could bring better, stronger sight to the visually impaired.